Description
Paperback tie-in to the new Richard Linklater movie of the same name starring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne.
The hardcover, published in September, is a lead title on the Fall 2017 list.
The sequel to the cult novel that one critic called "the first underground triumph of the 70s and that was the basis for the now classic movie by Hal Ashby (screenplay by Robert Towne) starring Jack Nicholson that critics raved with Vincent Canby of the New York Times calling it "a new kind of anti-comedy."
Will resonate with anyone even remotely acquainted with the original book: assembles to same beloved charactersBilly Bad-Ass Buddusky, Mule Mulhall, and Larry Meadowsthirty-four years after the original "last detail" to reprise the same journey (from Norfolk, VA, to Portsmouth, NH) during a different war (Iraq, not Vietnam) but with similar antiwar themes and is as funny, tender, profane, and provocative as the original.
Author previously self-published an edition at The Wright Press in 2005.